Four Therapeutic New Promos For LEGION Have David Haller & Friends Questioning Reality
With the premiere date now a month away, FX has started rolling out a lot of very cool new promos and the latest batch are some of the best yet as David Haller, Amy, & the mysterious Syd question reality!
What is real?
That seems to be the big question on everyone's mind (especially David Haller's) as we swiftly approach the premiere date for FX's Legion. The latest batch of promos for the upcoming X-Men spin-off series features Dan Stevens (Beauty and the Beast) as David Haller in a therapy session where he begins to question whether everything he's seeing - including himself - is real or not. We also catch sessions with David's sister Amy, played by Katie Aselton (The League), and one with the alluring Syd, played by Rachel Keller (Fargo), who seems to have some major issues of her own.
Check out the four new promos below:
Legion, based on the Marvel Comics by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, is the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens) – a troubled young man who may be more than human.
Diagnosed as schizophrenic as a child, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. Now in his early 30s and institutionalized once again, David loses himself in the rhythm of the structured regimen of life in the hospital: breakfast, lunch, dinner, therapy, medications, sleep. David spends the rest of his time in companionable silence alongside his chatterbox friend Lenny (Aubrey Plaza), a fellow patient whose life-long drug and alcohol addiction has done nothing to quell her boundless optimism that her luck is about to change. The pleasant numbness of David’s routine is completely upended with the arrival of a beautiful and troubled new patient named Syd (Rachel Keller). Inexplicably drawn to one another, David and Syd share a startling encounter, after which he must confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees are the result of him being a mutant.
A haunted man, David escapes from the hospital and seeks shelter with his sister Amy (Katie Aselton). But Amy’s concern for her brother is trumped by her desire to protect the picture perfect suburban life she’s built for herself. Eventually, Syd guides David to Melanie Bird (Jean Smart), a nurturing but demanding therapist with a sharp mind and unconventional methods. She and her team of specialists – Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris), Kerry (Amber Midthunder) and Cary (Bill Irwin) – open David’s eyes to an extraordinary new world of possibilities.
Legion features:
Dan Stevens as David Haller
Rachel Keller as Syd Barrett
Jean Smart as Melanie
Aubrey Plaza as Lenny Busker
Jeremie Harris as Ptonomy Wallace
Amber Midthunder as Kerry Loudermilk
Katie Aselton as Amy Haller
Bill Irwin as Cary Loudermilk
Jemaine Clement in an undisclosed role
Legion premieres February 8